Art 305 - Art and Mass Culture » Summer 2020 » Baroque Quiz No. 4

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Question #1
The function of the French Royal Academy of Fine Arts was:
A.   to establish and maintain artistic standards
B.   to develop a complex curriculum based on a rationalistic philosophy
C.   to use painting as propaganda for the monarch's version of history
D.   all of these options
E.   none of these options
Question #2
The work of Italian Baroque artists Bernini, Caravaggio, and Gentileschi was characterized by:
A.   none of these options
B.   a focus on religious imagery
C.   emotional intensity
D.   all of these options
E.   dramatic contrast between light and dark
Question #3
The device known as the camera obscura is:
A.   all of these options
B.   none of these options
C.   a photographic process for developing film
D.   a box with a small hole through which an image can be projected and traced
E.   an object that used a box, a small hole, and plastic film
Question #4
During the Baroque period, the Catholic Church:
A.   emphasized the printed text as a way to speak to the masses
B.   emphasized humor as a way to speak to the masses
C.   directed artists like Caravaggio to use everyday people as models in order to preserve human dignity
D.   directed artists like Bernini to focus on real life to improve and uplift the image
E.   emphasized the visual arts as a way to speak to the masses
Question #5
Caravaggio’s dramatic shifting of the vanishing point, light source, and position of main characters brought the viewer:
A.   none of these options
B.   into the scene with psychological distance
C.   all of these options
D.   into the scene with emotional void
E.   into the scene with boldness and psychological connection
Question #6
French absolutist monarch Louis XIV endeavored to shift the mythic base of culture from:
A.   God to king
B.   God to humanistic naturalism
C.   none of these options
D.   God to science
E.   all of these options
Question #7
Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun was:
A.   known for her portraits
B.   the most celebrated woman artist of her time
C.   all of these options
D.   one of the few female members of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture
E.   none of these options
Question #8
The term “propaganda” during this period:
A.   originated with Bernini’s use of architecture to propagate faith in Louis XIV
B.   originated with the Church’s propagating faith through art
C.   originated with Louis XIV’s propagating royalty through art
D.   originated with Caravaggio’s use of live models to spread humanism through art
E.   originated with Gentileschi’s use of painting to spread faith through emotion and art
Question #9
Jan Vermeer is known for his:
A.   portrayal of light and women in meditatively quiet interiors
B.   historical scenes of the conquests of monarchies of Northern Europe
C.   all of these options
D.   none of these options
E.   portraits of the Dutch king and his court
Question #10
The Counter Reformation was a response to:
A.   the audacity of Baroque period art
B.   the austerity of Northern European art
C.   none of these options
D.   the Protestant Reformation
E.   the Gothic Middle Ages

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